Comedy day at the Alicante Film Festival

truce is he exit In the feature film of Mario Hernández, born 35 years ago in Almansa, but Closely linked to Alicante -Trained at UA and at the now-extinct Ciudad de la Luz Study Center- Grand premiere at the Malaga Festival and returning from Ibiza (Ibicine) five awards under your arm.

Managed by story Bruna Cusi (a Goya winner summer 1993, Carla Simón) and actor from Malaga save the queenAra and giving life to actor and screenwriter Edu They have an idyll for ten years. other than its official relations with its respective partners. After a year without seeing each other, they take advantage of a film festival to meet up. However Even this much-wanted truce is not immune from lies and nostalgia for his real life.

“I like to say that truce) It’s an anti-love story because in a romantic comedy or romantic drama where it is registered as a genre, the story is when the protagonists say I love you and when the brown starts. And the public will see a change in romantic movies that still remain on the surface in today’s world. we can’t describe our feelings and many times accept them. Ultimately, the problem is the lies they tell themselves rather than the lies they tell others,” explains the writer-director, who believes romantic comedy is romantic comedy. “It’s kind of criminal, and I think it’s great.”

The weight of the film dialogue between two heroes“The overflowing naturalness, which you forget to interpret and you see two characters talking, arguing, fucking and laughing”, since humor is always in the background – “I can’t think of anything without humor, even day to day”, he adds. The director points to movies like his trilogy. Richard Linklater (before nightfall…) movies about Rohmer (my night with maud) anyone sorogoyen (Stockholm) “to explain his preference for movies with talking characters because I’m very interested in words. Nothing more. It’s more fascinating than locking two people in a room and talking.. I think this is a positive point, because between the noise and anger of crazy productions, sometimes people miss. sit in a chair share what happens in company and quietly inside”.

truce will be released in theaters September 8 Hernandez’s opinion Get the stories of both characters five or ten years later “to see where they are, but you never know”. Now he is writing the script for another film, in rotation with the theater company in Madrid. Hernandez and Fernandez.

“Able or incapable” by Oliver Reaza

For Oliver Reza, can or can’t her exit in the feature film and the one in Alicante premiere at festivals. elevator movie “It was tough, but it finally paid off. And it’s a dream for them to have us compete at the festival”, continues the local director. bay, Where was this first movie filmed?A comedy against prejudice

can or can’t story Nico After seeing his desire to be a father with Lucía frustrated and losing his job and home, he is forced to return to his father’s house and deal with the girlfriend he can’t stand. while I wastries to overcome his personal crisis with the special help of his friendsto meet Gabya Colombian 10 years younger than him, with whom he started unexpected adventure and it’s new to him.

The movie is based on an original idea, plot, and main plot that Oliver gives form to the screenplay. emerald thin “and we got it in record time”. It’s a talking story “parent-child relationships, couples, friendship”, but above all it focuses “A lot of times we don’t know the biases we might have. until they meet in extreme cases. There is a generation that believes we are not prejudiced, that we are not sexist or racist, that this is a thing of the past, and that, when faced with certain life situations, we may discover that we inherit more than we would like. the patriarchal residue We accidentally carry it inside and it pops out when we least expect it,” explains Delgado.

Reaza stars in the movie Josma Villarroel and Eduardo Recabarren, among others. It highlights the “wonderful setting” of the shots, in which La Vila is another hero, andl “continuous growth as a team from day one”. Acting teacher Recabarren, with whom Reaza accompanies in other projects, believes with this film. “The jump was tremendous Moving from the YouTube level to a festival-appropriate film”.

It was not scheduled for a theatrical release, but a distributor suggested porting the tape to a platform. Reaza has other projects in mind, but he says “now we just enjoy the moment and everything will come, we’re in no hurry and we’ll see what happens. I have a lot of projects but I need to rest.”